David Weinehall

Interview: David Weinehall

Submitted by midian
on February 3, 2004 - 11:29am
Interviews

David Weinehall is the maintainer of the Linux 2.0 kernel. Alan Cox [interview] handed over maintainership of the 2.0 kernel over 4 years ago. David explains in his own words:

"In December 1999, a naughty bug that allowed any local user to crash a 2.0-machine surfaced. Alan Cox admitted that he didn't have any time left to work on the 2.0 kernel any longer, and told me that if I wanted to become maintainer for 2.0 and fix this bug (and some other bugs while at it), it was fine with him."

In this interview David talks about his past, and the things he's doing now.